SOAN 3100 Chapter Notes - Chapter 4: Ovulation, Knitting, Charwoman

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Sociology and Anthropology
• Course: SOAN 3100
• Professor: Sharada Srnivasan

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Its economic life was organized on a small scale such as small farms and small shops with the farm being the main center of life for individuals within these small rural communities. Work and the household was organized around this as well. Those who owned shops, the shop was considered as their home and their business with most laboring done by family members (household or domestic mode of production, The composition of the household tended to vary but any who were working together and living together related by blood or not were considered a family. Peasant family structure: number of persons eating at one table constantly or eating the same meal out of the same pot. The property peasant had to balance labor and consumption. Depending on the on the work that needed to be done, the number of persons changed as years went by along with changes in the family life cycle.